Channel Robot has released Empire Of Bass, the first in a Performance Series of dual voice ROMPlers.
Empire of Bass is the first release in Channel Robot's Performance Series, a set of instruments designed to give users powerful and immediate access to a range of customisable high quality sounds along with ease-of-use that includes performance related features over and above the "normal" dual-rompler fare.
Empire Of Bass has 430 presets and 300 meticulously sampled bass instruments taken from CR's popular Folio Bass Kontakt instrument; acoustic basses, electric basses, synth basses and more. Combine any two sounds together to quickly get a one-off instrument just right for the track no matter the genre or target.
Each of the two independent voices includes:
- Wave form display.
- Volume and pitch controls.
- Reverse mode.
- Mono/Poly Switchable.
- Glide controls.
- A simple Attack and Release envelope.
- Unison controls.
- Multimode filter (8 different filters to choose from).
- Multiple shaped LFO, assignable to Filter freq, Amplitude and Pitch.
- FM processing.
- 4 Send Levels.
- Keyboard split.
Alongside the two main voices Empire of Bass includes a Sub-Voice, a Sine wave synth with switchable Octave, Volume and Attack and Release controls.
There are 4 Send Effect Slots each loadable with any of 8 effects:
- Chorus.
- Phaser.
- Saturation.
- Wave Shaper.
- Compressor.
- Delay.
- Reverb.
- Convolution – with 9 IRs to select from.
There are 4 Master Effect Slots, also loadable with the same effect types.
The two main voices can be mixed together in varying ratios, using the large central Cross-Mixer control. Movements of the Cross-Mixer control can be recorded and replayed in a loop, or retriggered for each new note, or even set to a controlled random position on each new note.
There are two independent Arps – one per voice – with the standard Arp controls and CR's all new Pattern Builder panel – that allows users to build new musical and useful Arp patterns quickly and easily.
All this wrapped up in a single page UI with performance and speed of access at its heart.
Intro Price: $42.50 (Reg. $52.50).
Empire Of Bass is available for Windows and macOS (M1 and Intel) in VST3 and AU formats. A downloadable demo, sound examples and interface walkthrough are available at: channelrobot.com
